Living and Teaching God’s Law – A Kingdom Catechism

Living and Teaching God’s Law

A Kingdom Catechism

God’s Law must be lived if we would teach it well.

Q 38: How are parents and pastors to teach the Law of God?

A 38: Parents and pastors teach the Law of God by living according to its precepts, instructing the people of God faithfully and solemnly, and exercising discipline to encourage obedience to the Law and all the Word of God. (Deut. 6:4-9; Ps. 78:1-8; 1 Cor. 5)

The ministry of the Word of God and, hence, the work of teaching God’s Law, begins in our own personal examples. Teachers must work to embody the Law of God, working out our salvation day by day, so that our formal instruction in that Law will have credit with those we teach. Our teaching must be undertaken with the utmost care, with a view to instructing the people of God in all the counsel of His Word, beginning with His Law. Teaching must not be for information only, but for changed lives. To that end, teaching must be coupled with the work of shepherding—including exhortation, admonition, and other kinds of discipline—so that the people of God gain the benefits of the ingrafted Word.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.